Native Quotes - Page 11

• Every Man being conscious to himself, That he thinks, and that which his Mind is employ'd about whilst thinking, being the Ideas, that are there, 'tis past doubt, that Men have in their Minds several Ideas, such as are those expressed by the words, Whiteness, Hardness, Sweetness, Thinking, Motion, Man, Elephant, Army, Drunkenness, and others: It is in the first place then to be inquired, How he comes by them? I know it is a received Doctrine, That Men have native Ideas, and original Characters stamped upon their Minds, in their very first Being.

  John Locke

  Character, Army, Science

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• A native of America who cannot read or write is . . . as rare as a comet or an earthquake.

  John Adams

  Education, Writing, America

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• My reason teaches me that land cannot be sold. The Great Spirit gave it to his children to live upon. So long as they occupy and cultivate it, they have a right to the soil. Nothing can be sold but such things as can be carried away

  Black Hawk

  Children, Native American, Land

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• To be homeless in America is to live like a fugitive. The destitute are our own native-born "illegals."

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  America, Homeless, Born

  "Why Homelessness Is Becoming an Occupy Wall Street Issue" by Barbara Ehrenreich, www.motherjones.com. October 24, 2011.

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• There are better mothers than disaster. A native land is the best of all mothers. We American Jews have a native land we love. But it is even better to have a native land who loves us.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Mother, Land, Disaster

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• Even if I should never see a native converted, God may design by my patience and continuance in the Word to encourage future missionaries.

  Henry Martyn

  Design, May, Should

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• I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil.

  Martin Heidegger

  Soil, Pleasure, Rooted

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• Organisms are starting to move in response to climate change all over the place. Bees are disappearing and we don't have many of the native pollinators left to replace them. We're in deep trouble; there's no question about it. But ecologists tend to think of something that's going to be bad in ten years as very fast, and of course, politicians only think of things in a two-, four-, six-year cycle.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Moving, Thinking, Years

  Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• I'm always pointing things out to native New Yorkers that I think are weird about this place and their culture and all that. But I feel like my friends and family from California feel like I've totally "become a New Yorker."

  Adrian Tomine

  Thinking, California, Family And Friends

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time.

  Louise Erdrich

  Legacy, Violence

  "Conversation: Louise Erdrich on Her New Novel, ‘The Round House’". Interview by Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 19, 2012.

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• As I drew a still fresher soil about the rows with my hoe, I disturbed the ashes of unchronicled nations who in primeval years lived under these heavens, and their small implements of war and hunting were brought to the light of this modern day.

  Henry David Thoreau

  War, Native American, Hunting

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.247

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• I think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger and in some respects more natural.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Respect, Native American, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2010). “Wild Apples and Other Natural History Essays”, p.79, University of Georgia Press

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• The United States, a land of immigrants from every corner of the world, has been strengthened and unified because its newcomers have historically chosen ultimately to forgo their native language for the English language. We have all benefited from the sharing of ideas, of cultures and beliefs, made possible by a common language. We have all enriched each other.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Land, Native Language, Ideas

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• Patriotism which has the quality of intoxication is a danger not only to its native land but to the world, and "My country never wrong" is an even more dangerous maxim than "My country, right or wrong."

  Bertrand Russell

  Country, Land, Quality

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• In our own native land, in defense of the freedom that is our birthright and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it. For the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our fore-fathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms. We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed, and not before.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Father, Taken, Land

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.87, Cambridge University Press

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• Most extreme acts of anti-Semitism go beyond the acts of anti-Semitism by native Europeans.

  Manfred Gerstenfeld

  Extremes, Anti Semitism

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I met many Christians leaving the Middle East, hoping to come to Australia feeling they would leave behind a society where they were inferiors in their native lands and they are disturbed about the rise of more separate radical Islam in Australia, not necessarily the main stream but there is a voice.

  Mark Durie

  Christian, Voice, Australia

  "Fear of Islam". SBS Insight, www.sbs.com.au. November 2, 2010.

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• Native Americans say, "It's a good day to die," and samurai live their life to die honorably, so that kind of energy creates a certain mindset of reactiveness with control to a point. And after that, it's gone.

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Native American, Good Day, Energy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm half Native American and half white so I think I can adjust culturally to anything.

  Jacoby Ellsbury

  Native American, Thinking, White

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• My fellow Wilmington, North Carolina native Meadowlark Lemon is a true national treasure. I watched him play for the Harlem Globetrotters when I was growing up and his skill with the basketball and dedication to the game were an inspiration not only to me, but to kids all around the world.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Growing Up, Inspiration

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• A beginner with any native common sense can play passable Rummy.

  Albert H. Morehead

  Play, Common Sense, Beginners

  ALBERT H. MOREHEAD (1950). “FUN WITH GAMES OF RUMMY”

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• If you explain so clearly that nobody can misunderstand, somebody will. If you're right 90% of the time, why quibble about the remaining 3%? In Africa some of the native tribes have a custom of beating the ground with clubs and uttering spine chilling cries. Anthropologists call this a form of primitive self-expression. In America we call it golf.

  Dave Barry

  Golf, Self, Expression

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• The problem of South Africa is different than the world thinks. There is no native problem. The native worker gets more than white workers do in England! [...] The South African government is not a police state. It's easier on people than the United States government!

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Thinking, White, Government

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• It is considered in England and the United States that the Government of South Africa is altogether too harsh with its native peoples. It is sadly humorous to notice that the native in South Africa, however, holds an exactly reverse opinion and the fault he finds with the South African Government is that it is far too lenient in its administration of laws throughout the native populace.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Humorous, Law, Government

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• Your story isn't powerful enough if all it does is lead the horse to water; it has to inspire the horse to drink, too. On social media, the only story that can achieve that goal is one told with native content.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Horse, Powerful, Media

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.21, Harper Collins

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